Do Your Part!

Have you ever wanted to have your very own sea turtle? Now you can do your part for conservation by adopting one Georgia's 8 sea turtles involved in a telementry monitoring project. These turtles have been fitted with satellite telemetry units that allow their movements to be monitored by satellite and then tracked on the www.seaturtle.org website. The names of these turtles were chosen by school age children from across the state in honor of the countries involved in the recent G8 Summit. Adoption levels are available at $25, $50 and $75 levels and all proceeds benefit the Sea Turtle.org website and sea turtle conservation projects conducted by the Nongame Wildlife& Natural Heritage Section

Where in the world is Oki?

And Ormanda? And Tea Cake? And Cherepakha? And Bonjour? And Bellisma? And Aurora? And Cherokee Rose? Now you can find them by logging onto www.seaturtle.org and clicking on the Sea Turtle Satllite Telemetry Project and then the GA DNR Project.

Adult female loggerhead sea turtles were captured after they nested on Cumberland and Jekyll Islands and fitted with transmitters. Following their release, a satellite will monitor the turtles movements during daily passes over coastal Georgia. Turtle locations will be plotted on nautical charts and will be available for viewing at www.seaturtle.org under the Georgia Tracking Project. The sea turtle's transmitters will send multiple signals daily while the turtles are actively nesting and less frequently (bi-weekly) following the active nesting period.